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Quotes About Haste

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
~ Maria Monk
Everyone seems to be rushing through their lives, wishing they had just two minutes to do all the things they want to get gone.
~ Nick Yarris
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
~ Thomas Shadwell
The bastard even limped fast.
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
Power can be restrained only by counterbalancing power, Montesquieu reasoned. No man, and no political body or office, ought to possess unchecked power. For the sake of personal liberty and free community, power ought to be divided and hedged. Might this slow the actions of the state? Well, be it so, Montesquieu thought: freedom is better than haste.
~ Russell Kirk
Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
~ Saadi Shirazi
She married Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwind courtship which she blushingly told him left her too breathless to oppose his ardor any longer.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
~ Robert Jordan
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Hurry up, please, its time.
~ T. S. Eliot
We have not the time to take our time.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.
~ Statius
frantically
~ Seth Godin
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Halt rose to his feet instantly, knocking his chair over backward, sending it clattering on the bare floorboards of the office. Hastily, he bent to retrieve it and his cowl fell forward over his eyes, so that he was groping blindly for the chair. Finally, he composed himself, shoved the cowl back and righted his chair. Crowley had also risen to his feet, but not in the same precipitate rush as Halt.
~ John Flanagan
Run,Nathan,run. Run as if your life depended on it.
~ John Gilstrap
Then go faster. But don't go stupid.
~ John Jackson Miller
Las prisas solían matar
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Rushing saps the strength, whether you are in Delhi or New York.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
~ David Malpass
When you're panicking you make rash decisions.
~ John Whaite
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
~ William Cobbett
Everything moved rapidly after the tea was drunk.
~ Garth Nix